Is this a religion? Is a hot dog a sandwich?

Friends wanna introduce friends to Scientific Animism, but won’t (yet) because “religion” is scary.Maybe this is a “spiritual pathway” instead of a religion?To this I initially waved my hand and sighed, “Is a hot dog a sandwich?”Our languages drew arbitrary lines around fuzzy concepts; one person’s spiritual pathway is another person’s religion. Semantic arguments like this always bore me.Still, though, if I went into business selling hot dogs, I’d probably confuse potential customers if I called my restaurant a sandwich shop.What else could we call it? Get full access to Scientific Animism at newsletter.scientificanimism.org/subscribe